Hello My Lovelies,
I hope you’re all having a great Sunday!
I tried to disconnect a bit this weekend. Maybe not a 100% but you may have noticed that I was less active the last 2 days or so – whether on Twitter or here. So for the few of you that are still waiting for a reply to your comment on last Wednesday’s Bring IT! post, I sincerely apologize for the delay – but you need not worry or lose hope for I WILL be responding very shortly :D.
I just needed a tiny break from spending over 15 hours a day glued to my computer screen. So I went up to the mountains for the some fresh air and the new batch of snow we got during this last storm. And as you can see, I still managed to bring my laptop along.
It’s psychological really. You see, I’m supposed to be working on a project for a client (actually 3 of them), but my brain just isn’t in “serious work mode” at the moment. But, if I know my work is near me, then I feel less guilty about doing something else instead. Does that make any sense to you?
Yes, We Get Snow and Stuff
Now if you don’t mind, I’m gonna’ ask that you lend me your ears for a minute as I clarify this whole snow storm thing as this is the second time I mention one in my SuperPosts.
For those of you who don’t know or are a bit skeptical of the snow we GET in Lebanon, allow me to educate fill you in. NO…we are not Utah or the Alps (far from it) – nor do we claim to be. But how does 8 or 9 feet of fresh powder sound to you? That’s right, get your ski’s and luge’s out lol!
We have mountains that rise well over 2,900 meters (9,515 feet) above sea level; we have ski domains and chalets that will put a few of the one’s you’ve seen to shame (obviously not all – but trust me when I say quite a few); by the end of this month until the beginning of April, we’ll be skiing in long sleeve t-shirts and already working on our farmer’s tan; we’re on the Mediterranean Sea – so the only desert we have is the sand on the seashore which spans across the entire coast of the country. So we may be in the Middle East, but we’re somewhat of an exception. And a great one at that!
As I type today’s SuperPost, it’s minus 5 degrees Celcius (22 degrees Fahrenheit) outside. Again, nowhere near a Canadian winter or an Alaskan Fall lol, but still pretty chilly.
I’m curled up in front of the fireplace at 6,800 feet and all I can hear is the crackling of the burning wood and the wind gushing through the snow-filled trees. And at this moment, there’s nowhere I’d rather be!
So to answer your question in your blog post Lori – right now – I’m IN my happy place ;).
But enough of me and my whereabouts – it’s not like you came here to read about snow and shit. I believe it’s…
Time for Some Goodies
Oh, just one last thing before the link love…
Remember my Guest Post on Danny Brown’s blog about Social Media manners? Well, thanks to all of you and your kick-ass comments, it’s now listed as one of the Top 5 posts on Danny’s site (Reader Favorites). Can you guess how big my smile is right now? 😉
Sorry, I just had to share that with you.
Without further ado and blah blah, here are this week’s snowy SuperPosts on all things Social Media, Blogging Tips, SEO, Internet Marketing, Traffic Building, Online Money Making Tools and more.
Social Media
- 7 Interesting Things a Tweet Doesn’t Tell You About a Blogger – Darren Monroe, alexwhalley.com
This is a Guest Post from Darren Monroe of DarrenMonroe.com You can read the full (and impressive) bio at the end of the post. Enjoy I have been on Twitter since the early days. And I cease to be amazed by the interesting…
- How the Four Seasons Hotel Just Gets Social Media – by Thomas Marzano, istrategyconference.com
The last two years I have been travelling quite a lot for work, and although I love being in new and different places the disruptive aspect of travelling is not something I am very fond of. I don’t think I am the only…
- Do You Connect? Or Do You Engage? – by Paul Flanigan, experiate.net
Before going off to college, I was stuck. I had no idea what major I should pursue. I knew I was pretty good at video, and I liked to read books, but that was about it. So I asked a few of my dad’s friends who were in the advertising…
- On Twitter, no one can hear you scream – by Mark Schaefer, businessesgrow.com
I had the strangest call from Charlie Sheen yesterday. “OK man, I’ve got 2 MILLION freaking people following me on Twitter and my Klout score still sucks. Ya gotta help me!” “Charlie,” I calmly replied, “Klout scores…
- 31 Public Relations Definitions – by Heidi Cohen, heidicohen.com
Say PR, as in public relations,particularly during a conversation about marketing and/or social media, and participants are liable to have vastly different perspectives on the topic. Traditionally, public relations referred…
Blogging Tips
- What Makes An Awesome Blogger? – by Phil, philz-corner.com
I browse many different blogs on a different range of subjects and this week I asked myself what I thought made an awesome blogger. We all have our favorite blogs we visit more often than others, whether it’s because…
- Engage Your Audience With a Bit of You – by Bernardo Mendez, theskooloflife.com
The days when glamour shots on a website satisfied its users are long gone. Today more than ever, transparency and reality are not only wished for but required in order to create deep and lasting connections on and offline…
Internet Marketing
- Optimizing Your Feedburner Account – by Michele Welch, technshare.com
Recently I was exposed to a new feature on Google Feedburner that I hadn’t been exposed to before. Well, actually it was not a new feature, but rather an old one, but new to me as I had managed to miss it when setting up…
- Think Outside the Blog: External Ways to Explode Your List – by Pat Flynn, traffeicgenerationcafe.com
In every aspect of successful blogging, there are two sides to the coin: the stuff you do on your blog, and the stuff you do outside of your blog. For example, with search engine optimization, you have on-page SEO…
SEO
- How to SEO if You’re Not a Guru – by Rick LaPoint, searchenginepeople.com
I’m not an SEO Guru. I don’t even play one on TV. But lest your temptation to hit the Back Button overpowers your natural curiosity, you may take comfort in the fact that a lot of what goes into SEO is Educated…
- SEO 101 | The Beginner’s Ultimate Guide for On-page SEO – by Brankica Underwood, live-your-love.com
This is something I was planning to do for awhile and after receiving many questions on the subject, here it is – SEO 101, the beginner’s ultimate guide for on-page SEO. According to some e-mails and comments…
- How to Write a Search Optimized Blog Post by doing it Backwards – by Michael Martine, peggybaron.com
Search-optimized blog posts are the holy grail of blog writing. Would you like to learn the best step-by-step method for writing them? That’s exactly what I’m going to show you how to do in this post…
Traffic Building
- 50 Traffic Sources You Should Milk Like Crazy – Brankica Underwood, famousbloggers.net
Is blogging a struggle for you sometimes? I know it is a passion for most of us, and we love doing it. But sometimes it becomes a struggle. How to get more traffic, how to get more comments, how to come up with fresh topics…
Online Money Making Tools
- How to Become the First Billionaire Blogger – by Tristan Higbee, bloggingbookshelf.com
Forbes just came out with its annual list of the richest people in the world. According to the list, there are 937 billionaires in the world. None of them are bloggers. Yet. While I pride myself on publishing blogging…
- How to Beat the Changes to Organic Traffic Generation Rules – Mavis Nong, iblogzone.com
We all know that organic traffic generation is one of the more effective ways to attract unlimited and good quality visitors to your site or blog. After all, if your blog ranks well in the search engine results, you’ll see an influx…
MishMash
- Are You Selling Yourself Short? – by Jennifer Brown Banks, penandprosper.blogspot.com
Back in the day when I had a crush on bad-boy rapper 50 Cent, I would devour every hip-hop magazine, celebrity news story, or blog that featured his interview, movie review, or the 4-1-1 on who he was dating…
- The Entrepreneur’s Journey – Of Pitfalls and Provence – by John Falchetto, troyclaus.com
I never thought I would be an entrepreneur. I wasn’t raised in an entrepreneur family like my friend Mark Harai. After I graduated from McGill I worked as a freelance journalist, first in Jordan then in Egypt. In 1999 some friends…
- Fuck the Hype! I Choose to Build a REAL Online Business and You Should Too – by Murray Lunn aka Murlu, murlu.com
Get around the web enough and you’ll notice more than a few hyped ‘systems’, ‘push-button software’ or ‘methods’ to make you incredible riches in mere days or weeks. Hell, you may have bought one or two of them before…
- The Bitch Slap: 5 Things I’ve Done Wrong – by Erika Napoletano, redheadwriting.com
There’s rarely a literary backhand raised at Redhead Writing without it first being turned on myself. Much of the time, the columns in this series stem from some self-owed smackage. From mistakes I made when I started…
- How to Will Success into Your Life….One Blog Article at a Time – by Marcus Sheridan, thesaleslion.com
I’ve talked so much about how blogging and content marketing can change one’s business over the past year, but today I want to discuss a more personal, and quite possibly more rewarding, aspect to blogging…
- How To Write An eBook – The Outline and Bundle Method – by Paul Wolfe, onespoonatatime.com
You’ll often hear or read the times we live in referred to as the Information Age. And Information is truly a valuable currency. Even more so, now that digital self-publishing has advanced to the stage where the biggest…
- Business Ideas: The letter.ly Strategy – by Jonathan Alford, jonalford.com
The letter.ly service is an easy-to-use email newsletter publisher. You set up a free account, submit your newsletter by email to an email account they assign you and the email gets published for your paying subscribers…
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